VETERANS COMMUNITY NETWORK

Registered charity 1191970 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VCN

Veterans Community Network provides intensive peer mentor support, social community interaction that breaks down isolation, and therapeutic spaces for serving personnel, veterans, reservists, and families across England, centred on Northamptonshire and the wider Lower Midlands. We identify and help individuals to engage with and remain in specialist treatment and support services.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF AND TO PROMOTE THE GOOD HEALTH AND WELLBING OF EX-SERVICE PERSONNEL (HM ARMED FORCES) AND RESERVISTS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS LIVING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, BEDFORDSHIRE, OXFORDSHIRE AND BERKSHIRE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING THEM WITH COMRADESHIP, HELP AND ASSISTANCE AND BY OFFERING THEM A SIGNPOSTING SERVICE TO EXPERT SUPPORT PROVIDERS FOR THEIR BENEFIT.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased due to a Board decision to honour a staff contract following the early termination of a commissioned service, a move aligned with the charity's reserves policy. The charity faced significant financial pressures and funding gaps during the year, resulting in staff reductions, but the trustees report that financial controls have been strengthened and the charity remains focused on rebuilding its financial position.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Veterans Community Network (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Thomas John Crossman-Kelliechair
• David John Harris
• Geoffrey Millen
• Melanie Reevel Giles
• andrew collacott

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bedford · Buckinghamshire · Central Bedfordshire · Hertfordshire · Leicestershire · Milton Keynes · Northamptonshire · Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).